3 South Seattle shootings reported in one night

Updated 1:12 pm, Thursday, August 27, 2015

Seattle Police responded to three different shooting calls in South Seattle Wednesday night and detained five people.

The shootings appear to be unrelated and no one was reportedly injured.

Police found an armed man reportedly high on PCP about 11 p.m. after two Metro bus drivers called 911 to report someone shooting a gun at the Rainier Beach High School football field, reports say.

The 23-year-old man told police he was in a local gang and he was looking for the people who shot is friend, reports indicate. Officers searched the man and recovered a .22-caliber Beretta handgun in his jacket. They booked him into King County Jail for investigation of assault.

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The first shooting call came earlier, about 9 p.m. in the Dunlap neighborhood at Rainier Avenue South and South Cloverdale Street.

A 911 caller reported seeing a man fire a handgun near the intersection before jumping a fence and running to the west, police say. Officers and a police dog responded tothe area and followed a trail to a wooded area nearby. Cops found a 28-year-old man and took him to a precinct office, but released him pending additional investigation, reports indicate.

One vehicle was struck by gunfire in the incident.

A witness then approached an officer just before 10 p.m. in the Brighton neighborhood, near Martin Luther King, Jr. Way South and South Myrtle Street, reporting hearing nearby gunshots.

The officer found a white Pontiac that cops had been seeking earlier that night after one of the passengers reportedly brandished a handgun on the street, police accounts say.

Police stopped the Pontiac and took its occupants into custody: a 20-year-old man, 18-year-old woman and 17-year-old boy.